Thursday, July 20, 2017

Help Me! Help Me!

What you can't see in this photo is that I'm wearing my favorite black, knee-high riding boots. I loved those things so much and wore them for so long I'm pretty sure my mom had to cut them off me.

Before we were able to video every blessed moment of our children's precious existence with our Dick Tracy watches and Star Trek tricorders, our family made audio recordings on reel-to-reel audio tapes. Some were made just for fun, many were sent to our grandparents who lived in North Carolina and Louisiana. Thanks to my brother Lon, who rescued a bunch of these tapes and had them digitized, I can now expand my social media oversharing by several decades.Here is an audio clip from 1969 of me singing "In a Cabin In the Woods". If you know the song, you'll remember it's done with hand gestures gradually replacing the lyrics so by the end of the song you mime the whole verse. This being audio-only I decided to hum the hand-gestures instead and in this ridiculously cute rendition the humming takes on a life of its own; so much so that I clearly felt the need to acknowledge it at the end of the song.Here are the lyrics so you can sing along... I leave the hand gestures up to you.In a cabin in the wood, (trace a cabin outline with your index fingers)Little man by the window stood; (hand to your forehead shading your eyes and look around)Saw a rabbit going before, (hold two fingers of one hand like rabbit ears, hopping)Knocking at his door. (knock with fist) "Help me! Help me! Help! he said, (raise your hands up like you're surprised on each "help")"Or the hunter will shoot me dead!" (gun pointing like Elmer Fudd hunting wabbits)"Little rabbit, come inside, (beckon in)Safely you'll abide." (Rock the baby in your arms)